VJ posted: " There is safety in apart-ment living;would corral the little ones, declareresponsibility, obligations as a maskfor this self-banishing compulsion...except that I am lying prone, exposed -brains spilling onto concrete - shadowsrevealing the darkness o" One Woman's Quest
There is safety in apart-ment living; would corral the little ones, declare responsibility, obligations as a mask for this self-banishing compulsion...
except that I am lying prone, exposed - brains spilling onto concrete - shadows revealing the darkness of my condition, hopelessly locked in physical inertia.
I am an unwitting contributor to scientific (and pseudo) probing: audacious autopsies pronouncing conclusive evidence of motives.
Too polite (and weakened) to deflect, I submit, demonstrating complacency, sacrificing autonomy; fail to assert that it is I who is taking this life test.
And, by the way, am passing quite adequately, which defies all rational diagnosis and prognosis, and serves to reassure me of ultimate success.
(Not Dead Yet first appeared here June, 2016. Image my own.)
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